35 years ago, a Stephen King sci-fi movie launched a new era of Arnold Schwarzenegger

As a sci-fi concept, the 1987 film The Running Man is unoriginal three times over. Although it was loosely adapted from a Stephen King novel of the same name, the Steven E. de Souza-penned screenplay was later found to have plagiarized a 1982 French sci-fi film called Le prix du danger, which, itself, was based upon a Robert Sheckley short story called “The Prize of Peril.”